First things first. Hexbear makes my life bearable sometimes. I don’t use an account because I don’t like how addicted to social media I get sometimes and I’m afraid of pissing people off, because although I consider myself an ML, I come from a very conservative family where I unknowingly say bad things about idpol.
Anyways. As a very drunk man (bad very bad day first time drinking in months - not an alcoholic), do you think the US government monitors hexbear? Like if I browse it without a VPN do you think I become a POI, serious, if not stupid, question?
Again, thank you for being a shining beacon in my day surrounded by people who justify genocide, political violence against the global south, and endless enterprise. I really am grateful even if I’m not the best Marxist. You’ve taught me about donbas, about the struggles of north Korea, the toils of Iran among so much more
Edit: As a still drunkman someone asked me about idpol. I uh can’t see ur messages here but I can on my Lemmy client.
uh to make myself clear not in an Obama way - I find nick Mullen stuff funny. It makes me feel bad because of the punching down so i avoid it. and I might do things that are unintentionally mean, forgetting to use the correct pronouns (like genuinely I hardly meet with my enby friends so my mind just defaults to calling someone female presenting she rather than the preferred they. I do try to correct but sometimes I’m so absent minded that I’d rather not upset anyone.
I am trying to self crit so I’m OK with being dunked on I guess. But I isolate BC I don’t wanna upset ppl. Its harder to express my intentions online when I mess up. @lemmmygradwontallowme
If you’re asking, you probably are already POI (IMO). But thankfully we are (presumably) millions even just among the west. They monitor literally everyone (POI or not) and probably will gun for us if and when shit happens, even if we’re not remotely involved… or that’s my take on it, anyways (could be called paranoid or alternatively optimistic).
Honestly I figure for a whole list of reasons it’d probably be for the best to want to leave the west in time, anyways. The economic spiral sucks, fascism sucks and will only continue getting worse for everyone, etc. Many of the sensible petty bourgeois or those proles who could seize opportunities elsewhere are reading between the lines and getting the hell out of dodge IMO. If we stay here- in the foreseeable future, worst case scenario if shit really goes south we’ll wind up facing death squads or concentration camps, best case scenario we’re going to see the empire continue to spiral even further but “in peace”- cracking down on “civil liberties,” continuing to be the usual fascists, with tent cities ever-increasing, the economy only ever getting worse for the majority, and life becoming ever-more precarious, to describe the outlook for much of the collective west. I don’t sound optimistic, but it’s going to get worse before it gets better (in the west) IMO.
I’m not a defeatist, but IMO if we can live better lives (or just plain survive), and maybe even contribute to the global south, we can do better- more for humanity and ourselves alike- by leaving. Not to say we shouldn’t do things while we’re in the west, and personally I might wind up remaining simply because my loved ones are here (if I had the means, and particularly if I had enough of the means to convince them all and move them with me, I’d head to China lol), or because I can’t get my life together.